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ENJN Middle East Team delved deep into the strengths and weaknesses of the ENP

Next training for the ENJN Middle East Team in Brussels

В Беларуси иностранные СМИ проверят на "вредность"

Парламент сприятиме створенню в Україні інформаційного суспільства

Ганьба турецького журналіста або практика замовних запитань до влади

European Parliament approves new Commission: what does it mean for the Neighbourhood?

The European Parliament has elected the new European Commission by 488 votes in favour, 137 against and 72 abstentions in Strasbourg. The vote, on Tuesday, 9 February, was a single vote on the whole College of Commissioners, consisting of one Commissioner from each of the 27 EU member states. The new Commission will stay in office until 31 October 2014.

Ukraine's presidential election: Orange squashed

Ukrainians expect little from their politicians. But some had hoped that the presidential election on Sunday February 7th might bring an end to the ruinous political turmoil of their country, whoever turned out to be the winner. Yet uncertainty, once again, rules. With over 90% of votes counted, Viktor Yanukovich, the villain of the 2004 orange revolution, has a narrow lead of less than 3% over Yulia Tymoshenko, the prime minister and the princess of the orange drama. He had mustered 48.4% of the votes against her 46%. In absolute numbers, a gap of nearly 600,000 ballots looks somewhat more convincing. But Ms Tymoshenko dallied, refusing to accept defeat.

The creed of objectivity killed the news

Reporters who witness the worst of human suffering and return to newsrooms angry see their compassion washed out or severely muted by the layers of editors who stand between the reporter and the reader. The creed of objectivity and balance, formulated at the beginning of the 19th century by newspaper owners to generate greater profits from advertisers, disarms and cripples the press.

Pioneer of independent press in Morocco silenced

On Wednesday January 27, Hicham Bennani (30) was putting the final touches on an article for the next edition of Le Journal Hebdomadaire, the French-language Moroccan weekly newspaper that is considered the pioneer of the independent press in Morocco. The article was going to be about the rapid rise of the Parti Authenticité et Modernité (PAM), also known as the "Parti de l'Ami du Roi" (the party of the king's friend.) "But I had like a premonition that I was working for nothing," Bennani said. His premonition proved correct: that evening, as the paper was being put to bed, the bailiffs entered the offices of Le Journal in Casablanca. "At first they just served us with the court's decision," said another journalist, Omar Radi (23). "But 15 minutes later they returned with a locksmith in tow. That's when we knew the end had come."